Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Google Hopes Artificial Intelligence Can Turn Search Into a Conversation

Artificial intelligence

Google often uses its annual developer conference, I/O, to showcase artificial intelligence with a wow factor. The tech giants introduced LaMDA this year.

In 2016, it introduced the Google Home smart speaker with Google Assistant. In 2018, Duplex debuted to answer calls and schedule appointments for businesses. In keeping with that tradition, last month CEO Sundar Pichai introduced LaMDA, Artificial Intelligence “designed to have a conversation on any topic.”

Pichai demonstrated what it’s like to converse with a paper airplane and the celestial body Pluto in an onstage demo. For each query, LaMDA responded with three or four sentences meant to resemble a natural conversation between two people. Over time, Pichai said, LaMDA could be incorporated into Google products including Assistant, Workspace, and most crucially, search.

Pichai said: “We believe LaMDA’s natural conversation capabilities have the potential to make information and computing radically more accessible and easier to use,”

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Google redesigning Gmail to make it a productivity hub, aims to get ahead of Microsoft

Gmail tools

Alphabet’s Google said on Wednesday its corporate Gmail customers would now be able to edit documents and other files without leaving the email service.

The announcement by Google was made at cloud unit’s annual customer and partner conference.

The tech giant has been trying for more than a decade to catch up with Microsoft’s Office, which dominates the global market for corporate email and document-editing tools.

Both companies have been adding video-calling features and other collaboration tools to attract new business from companies operating from home during the pandemic.

Google contends it has found an edge with potential customers by promoting Gmail as a single hub for workers to access text chats, video calls, and now documents. Microsoft has limited tie-ins between its email and chat tools, Outlook and Teams.

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